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Increasing the Gender Gap: the Impacts of the Bioeconomy and Markets in Environmental Services on Women
May 2013

 

 

Biodiversity and Livelihoods under Attack from Industrial Bio-economy Strategy
September 2012

 

 

Bio-economy versus Biodiversity
April 2012
The ‘bioeconomy’ promotes speculative markets for ecosystem-based products and services, which are increasingly promoted as a ‘green’ alternative to the fossil fuel economy. Trading in ‘ecosystem services’ such as forest carbon offsets is accompanied by a massive expansion of wood-based bioenergy and other biomass-based products.

 

 

Carbon trading in forests, soils, farmlands and grasslands
A Guide for journalists to proposals on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry and carbon trading for COP 16
December 2010

 

 

Life as Commerce toolkit
Toolkit to help communities who are being asked to accept or engage in a market-based conservation project.

 

 

Life As Commerce 2008
The impact of market-based conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women; summary report with the following five case studies.

 

 

Case study on Certification in South Africa
By: The Timberwatch Coalition, 2008

 

 

Biodiversity Offsets in Paraguay
By: Alter Vida, 2008

 

 

Case study on bioprospecting in Costa Rica (only in Spanish)
By: COECOCEIBA, 2008

 

 

Case study on Ecotourism in India
By: EQUATIONS, 2008

 

 

Case study on Carbon sinks in Colombia (only in Spanish)
By: CENSAT Aqua Viva, 2008

 

 

International Financial Architecture and the Commodification of Life
By: Juana Camacho Otero, for Censat Agua Viva Foe-Colombia, June 2007

 

 

Life as Commerce
International Financial Institutions, payments for environmental services and carbon finance
, 2008

 

 

Life as Commerce Free Trade and the Environment
A dangerous Liaison: the environment and free trade
By GFC and Comunidades Ecologistas La Ceiba Amigos de la Tierra Costa Rica, 2008

 

 

The impacts of market-based biodiversity conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
This paper mainly focusses on carbon trade and biodiversity offsets.
Presented at the fifth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity, 1 November 2007

 

 

Life as Commerce : The Impact of Market-Based Conservation Mechanisms on Woman, 2008

 

 

Nature for sale – Friends of the Earth International and Global Forest Coalition
The new markets 1: selling our carbon . November 2005
The new markets 2: selling our genes and knowledge January 2006

 

 

You Cannot Save It If You Cannot Sell It? How Environmental Services Markets Impoverish People
Global Forest Coalition – August 2006

 

 

Ecotourism as a market-based conservation scheme in India (in Hindi )
How ecotourism development capitalizes on areas that are conserved at the cost of communities in India

 

 

Empty land
The social and environmental impact of the Holterberg plantations in the Netherlands